Introduction to midi programming

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Published on 2010-06-08T14:17:31Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 14:22 UTC
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So I have a little (musical) keyboard that has USB midi interface. I know you can program to this (many programs accept input from the midi device via USB interface) but where do you begin to program a midi device?

Ideally I'm looking for a platform-independent api, through Python or something.

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